Nutmeg-grater.



G. E. TRNSJO.

NUTMEG GRATBR.

APPLIOATION FILED lJUNE 18, 191s.

1,082,918. Patented Deo.3o,1913.

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GUSTAF E. TORNSJO, 0F ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

NUTMEG-GRATER.

SpecificationV of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

` Application liled June 18, 1913. Serial No. 774,491.

To all who/m, t may concern Be it known thatI, GUSTAF E. Tourism, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, haverinvented a new and useful NutmegeGrater, of whichthe following is a. specification.

My invention relates to nutmeg-graters, and the Object is to provide an eliicient yet lcgheap and simple nutmeg-grater which may other hand.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a top viewY of my improvedV nutmeg-grater.-

\ edge 2 is provided with hollow grating teeth 3 arranged in stra-ight lines cn parallel cords of the disk, so that a-nutmeg moved on a segmental line will have all of its points engaged by the teeth.

The segmental plate is provided with an integral handle 4, andan arm 5, the latter having a hole 6 at the center of the segment. At said hole is pivoted by an eyelet 7 one end of an operating lever 8, whose opposite end forms a handle 9, and intermediate the ends of the lever is formed a bottomless nutmeg-receptacle or socket 10, which when the lever swings on its pivot moves over the toothed segment, so as to grate a nutmeg placed in the socket, as indicated by a fragment of a nutmeg 11 in Fig. 2.

Pivoted at 12 to the handle 9 is an arm 13 having at its free end a depression or pocket 14, byl which to press upon and feed the nutmeg downward as fast as it is grated. Said arm 13 is formed with an end portion or linger 15, which is to contact with vthe lever and prevent the pocket 14 from contacting with the grating teeth. Said arm 13 being preferably stamped out of sheet metal is formed with stilfening ribs 16, 17, be tween which the arm is broadened at 13a. The handle 9 is stili'ened by downwardly and inwardly curved ribs 9a. The handle 4 has similar ribs and is also stilfened by a rib 18 at its weakest point, and is provided with an aperture 19 for suspending the device from a peg when it is not in use. The

held in one hand and operated by the socket 10 is preferably provided with notches 20 for the arm 13 to pass partly down into, so as to avoid making the pocket 14 undesirably deep, or the socket undesirably shallow.

In the operation of the device, the arm 13 is raised while the nutmeg is placed in the socket 10, the arm is then lowered upon the nutmeg; the handle 4 is then grasped in the left hand and the handle 9 and the arm 13 in the right hand; the thumb of the right hand is placed upon the broad part 13ai of the arm, where it is kept in place by the adjacent ends of the ribs 16 and 17. Said thumb now exerts the desired pressure upon the arm 13 and thereby on the nutmeg while the right hand swings the lever back and forth over the segment, and the nutmeg is thereby grated coarse or line according to the pressure applied upon it. And by holding the device over a plate or other receptacle the grated nutmeg is collected as it passes through the hollow teeth of the grating plate.

lThe lever 8-9 is provided with a hook 21 (see Fig. 2) struck downward from the space 22 out of the handle portion of the lever. Said hook slidingly engages underneath the segmental edge of the grater plate, so as to prevent accidental upward bending or movement of the lever. 23 are lugs on the grating plate for the hook 21 to stop against.

What is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

1. A nutmeg-grater having a body plate formed with a segmental edgeand an arm with a hole forming the center of the sem ment; said plate havin hollow grating teeti along the segmental ege and a handle near one end of the grating surface; a handoperated lever pivoted with one end at said hole in the plate, the other end of the lever extending beyond the segment-al edge and constituting a. handle; said lever having over the grating teeth of the plate a bottomless socket adapted to hold a nutmeg, a flat arm pivoted to the outer end of the handle and provided with a presser plate arranged to move up and down in the socket and to press upon the nutmeg therein, and means for limiting the motion of the operating lever.

2. A nutmeg-grater having a flat body plate with a segmental edge, and hollow grating teeth near said edge; a lever pivoted With one end at the center of the segment and having its free end formed into a handle and its middle portion provided With a bottomless socket in which to hold the nutmeg to be grated, an arm pivoted to the outer end of the handle and provided With a depending pocket arranged to pass downward into the socket and press upon the nutmeg therein.

3. A nutmeg-gratter having a body plate With a segmental grating surface at one side o it, a manually operated lever pivoted With one end to the plate at the center of the segment and having its free end formed into a handle, said lever having near its middle a bottomless socket adapted to hold a nutmeg While it is being grated, said socket having two diametrically opposite notches, an arm pivoted to the outer end of the handle and adapted to fold into said notches, said arm having a pressing member arranged to press upon the nutmeg in the socket, and means arranged to contact with the lever beyond the socket so as to prevent the pressing member from contacting With thev grating teeth.

4. A nutmeg-grater comprising a body plate having at one side a segmental grating surface and at one end a handle, a lever pivoted with one end at the center of the segment and having a hook guiding below the edge of the segment, said lever having a nutmeg socket over the grating surface and a handle at its free end, and pivoted to the handle an arm arranged to press upon the nutmeg in the socket. f

In testimony vvhereoi:l I aX my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses. n

GUSTAF E. TORNSJO. Witnesses: CARL NYBERG,

HERMAN LNDBERG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

